Rachel V-Rey is a nurse practitioner with 25 years in medicine, from oncology to emergency care to aesthetics, and she runs 2Restore & Rejuven8 as a concierge service that comes to you around Tampa.

She explains how to tell a medical consultation from a sales floor, why your first visit should open with an intake form instead of a package list, and what to ask about an injector's training when there is no single certification to look for.

We also cover:

• Why your full medical history decides which treatments you're eligible for, even for something as routine as Botox
• What the red flags are behind an unusually cheap Botox deal, including expired or long-reconstituted product
• How much one syringe of filler actually covers, and why she describes it as the size of a blueberry
• Why naming your real budget works better than hunting for a discount
• What commission and sales quotas can do to the treatment you're offered
• The questions you're entitled to ask, and why a good provider wants to hear them

Find Rachel:

Website: https://2restore-rejuven8.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/2Restore.Rejuven8
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/2RestoreAndRejuven8
Call or text: (813) 417-9797
Serving Wesley Chapel and the greater Tampa area, with free 15 minute consultations.

Find a provider near you: https://getclearbeauty.com/pod

Danielle calls her breast reduction her gateway surgery. Thirteen years later she is still calling it the best thing she ever did for herself. In this episode she sits down with Dr. Sean Doherty, a board-certified plastic surgeon in Boston, to go through it properly.

He explains what actually happens in the operating room, and why a reduction always includes a lift whether or not anyone calls it that. He is candid about scars: where they go, what makes one thick and raised rather than fine, and everything that can be done about them starting two weeks after surgery. About half of how you scar is genetics, which is the part no surgeon can promise around.

On insurance, he explains the Schnur scale and why an insurer is looking at a number rather than at you — and why starting with your primary care physician, years before you ever see a surgeon, is what builds the case. He also explains why some women choose to pay themselves even when they would qualify.

We cover sizing and why surgeons talk in grams while patients talk in cup sizes, what happens to nipple sensation and breastfeeding, what recovery really looks like week by week, and who should not have this surgery at all — including anyone using nicotine pouches, which carry the same risk as cigarettes.

On cost, Dr. Doherty gives a real number for his practice and, more usefully, names the three separate fees you should be asking about so a quoted price is not hiding two more.

Dr. Doherty practices in the greater Boston area.

Website: https://www.seandohertymd.com
Instagram: https://instagram.com/stdohertymd

Find a breast reduction provider near you: https://getclearbeauty.com/breast-reduction/?utm_source=podcast

Instagram: https://instagram.com/getclearbeauty
TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@getclearbeauty

Under-eye filler has quietly become one of the most regretted treatments in aesthetics. Julia and her colleague, also Julia, do not offer it at all — and they will not dissolve it either. In this episode she explains why, and what they do instead.

PRF EZ Gel is made entirely from your own blood. Two vials are drawn, spun, gently heated and cooled until it takes on the consistency of a filler, then injected through a single entry point with a cannula. There is no synthetic material in it, which is the whole point: the risks that make the under-eye area so unforgiving with traditional filler work differently when the product is your own tissue.

Julia walks through what PRF actually is and how it differs from the PRP everyone knows, what it can do for hollows, crepey skin and dark circles, and what it realistically cannot. She is straight about the parts nobody advertises — swelling is guaranteed, it takes three sessions four to six weeks apart, and the final result arrives four to six weeks after the last one. She also covers who should not have it, including anyone on blood thinners, and why they turn people away rather than talk them into it.

On price, she explains why it is sold as a package rather than a single session, and how it compares to filler over time.

Let's Heal Your Skin is in Tottenville, Staten Island. They see one client at a time.

Website: https://www.letshealyourskin.com
Instagram: https://instagram.com/letshealyourskin
Phone: 347-477-6834

Find a PRF EZ Gel provider near you: https://getclearbeauty.com/prf-ez-gel
Instagram: https://instagram.com/getclearbeauty
TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@getclearbeauty

If you have ever been told to just eat less, this episode explains why that advice misses the point. Dr. Ayushi Dixit is an endocrinologist who trained in internal medicine, completed a fellowship in endocrinology, and added an obesity certification through Columbia.

She walks through what is actually happening in the body: the hormones that tell you when to eat and when to stop, and why in some people those signals never properly switch off. She also explains food noise, the constant mental planning around meals that so many patients describe, and what these drugs do to quiet it.

We cover the differences between Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro and Zepbound and why the same drug carries two names, what nobody tells you about switching brands, who is a good candidate and who should not take these at all, and the side effects worth taking seriously. Danielle is candid about her own experience on a GLP-1, including the nights that landed her on the bathroom floor.

Dr. Dixit also gives a straight answer on compounded semaglutide, and a piece of insurance advice most people have never heard: your employer, not your insurer, may be the one deciding whether these drugs are covered at all.

Website: https://ayushidixitmd.com
Instagram: https://instagram.com/ayushidixitmd

Find a provider near you: https://getclearbeauty.com/pod
Instagram: https://instagram.com/getclearbeauty
TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@getclearbeauty

So many people want a tummy tuck or a breast reduction and talk themselves out of it because they are afraid of the scar. Dr. Amir Ghaznavi is on both sides of that fear: he is a dual board-certified plastic and reconstructive surgeon who creates the scar and then treats it.

In this episode he explains what RF microneedling actually does to a scar, and why timing matters more than the device. Your body lays down disorganized collagen in the first six weeks, then goes back and reorganizes it. Treating during that transition gives the scar a second, better pass. Wait until nine months and that window has largely closed.

We also cover which scars respond well and which ones should never be treated, why darker skin tones need a provider who understands depth and energy settings, and why Morpheus is the name everyone knows without being the only option that works. Dr. Ghaznavi shares his own protocol and his real price: three sessions at $3,600.

Dr. Ghaznavi practices at AMG Plastic Surgery in Herndon, Virginia. You can find him at amgplasticsurgery.com and on Instagram at instagram.com/amgplasticsurgery.

Find an RF microneedling provider near you at getclearbeauty.com. Follow us on Instagram at instagram.com/getclearbeauty and on TikTok at tiktok.com/@getclearbeauty.

In this bonus episode, Danielle sits down with Asad Faruqi, a CPA who specializes in tax and accounting for med spas and aesthetic practices across all fifty states.

Asad breaks down the money side of running a practice in plain terms. He explains why mixing personal and business finances is the mistake that costs owners the most, why an LLC protects you legally but does nothing for your taxes, and the net profit number where converting to an S-corp finally starts to make sense.

They also cover the deductions aesthetic practices routinely miss, how depreciation works when you finance a six-figure laser, why sales tax rules change depending on whether you are selling a treatment or a product, how much to set aside every quarter so April is not a surprise, and the difference between tax preparation and tax planning, which is where the real savings live.

Whether you are opening your first suite or already running a busy practice, this one is full of advice you can act on immediately.

Find Asad Faruqi, CPA:
Website: https://www.poweraccountingfirm.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/asad-faruqicpa/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/asad.faruqi.115726

Be sure to follow @getclearbeauty on Instagram and TikTok to learn more about your favorite aesthetic treatments! You can also find a provider near you at www.getclearbeauty.com.

Danielle sits down with Beth Brennan, founder of Sharp Margins, a bookkeeping firm built specifically for med spas and injectors. Beth has never onboarded a single client with clean books, and she explains why the aesthetics industry breaks most accountants: it is cash pay, not insurance, with memberships, deposits, and patient credits that general bookkeepers do not know how to track.

They get into the Stripe gap that quietly triggers IRS audits, why the treatment you think is your moneymaker might be losing money, and how memberships can leave you upside down without it showing anywhere on paper. Beth breaks down the numbers every owner should check monthly, what your cost of goods sold should actually be, how to price laser treatments when the device sits on your balance sheet instead of your P&L, and why pricing off your neighbor's website is a trap.

She also shares her take on publishing prices, why she thinks transparency plus education wins, and what a $250 microneedling session tells her that a patient may not realize they are agreeing to.

If you are booked solid and still wondering where the money went, this one is for you.

You can find Beth at sharpmargins.com, on Instagram @sharp_margins, and on LinkedIn under Beth Brennan.

Be sure to follow @getclearbeauty on Instagram and TikTok to learn more about your favorite aesthetic treatments!

You can also find a provider near you at www.getclearbeauty.com.

In this episode, Danielle sits down with Dyann Minton, AGACNP-BC, CCRN, a nurse practitioner and the founder of Blackbird Aesthetics in Fort Worth, for a conversation about what changes when you treat deeper skin tones, and why so much of the aesthetics conversation has been built around lighter skin.

Dyann explains what the Fitzpatrick scale actually measures, which is not simply skin color, and the critical difference between hyperpigmentation and hypopigmentation. They get into which treatments carry real risk on deeper skin, why she avoids aggressive CO2 resurfacing and high-energy IPL, why lighter chemical peels often serve patients better than deep ones, and why spot testing matters so much.

They also cover melasma and the sunscreen ingredients that actually help it, why keloids form more readily on deeper skin, how laser hair removal has evolved for people of color, and the research gap that leaves Fitzpatrick five and six under-studied. Dyann closes with a straightforward list of red flags and the exact questions every patient should ask before letting someone treat their skin.

Find Dyann Minton, AGACNP-BC, CCRN — Blackbird Aesthetics, Fort Worth, TX

Website: https://blackbirdaestheticsdfw.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/blackbirdaestheticsllc
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@dyann85rn
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/p/BlackBird-Aesthetics-61584028846580/

Be sure to follow Get Clear Beauty to learn more about your favorite aesthetic treatments!

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/getclearbeauty
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@getclearbeauty

You can also find a provider near you at https://www.getclearbeauty.com